Posted on 06/03/2011 6:48:37 AM PDT by doug from upland
Weiner is falling, and he can't shut up
By: Michelle Malkin 06/02/11 9:26 PM
How long before Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner conducts his next meltdown press conference flanked by two adult-movie "goddesses" a la Charlie Sheen? Like the delusional bad-boy actor, Weiner actually thinks his self-destructive act is winning, too.
The tweetaholic congressman spent the week dodging and deflecting questions about what he called a "randy" image that appeared in his official, verified Twitter account last Friday. The Fruit of the Loom torso shot in his social-networking stream was addressed to a 21-year-old Seattle college student. She's an ardent fan of the cable TV-hopping lawmaker and a member of the fawning generation that unabashedly asks its political idols "boxers or briefs"?
Curiously, one of Weiner's non-deleted tweets made reference to the Seattle time zone the same night the junk photo turned up. Weiner wrinkled his nose at a question on Wednesday about that inconvenient allusion, dismissing it as "pure, pure coincidence." He refused to explain why he gave Seattle of all places a Twitter shout-out. Weiner, if I may helpfully point out, represents (SET ITAL) New York's (END ITAL) 9th District, not Washington State's.
"Frankly" -- (red flag!) -- he protested, he had "no idea." He then segued into relentless self-promotion of his "feisty" Twitter messages and started braying about the debt limit and health care reform.
It worked on cowed CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. But did it work on his wife? Would it work on yours?
Sending creepy photos to another adult on Twitter is not a crime, of course. But it is abjectly embarrassing for Democrats to be caught with their double-standard pants down -- especially given how liberals hyperventilated over former GOP New York Rep. Christopher Lee's shirtless Craigslist photo. As always, it's the cover-up that's worse than the original transgression.
In Weiner's barrage of defiant yabber-jabber, the incident has morphed from a "hacking" to a "prank" to "spam" to a "goofy thing." And in the political circumlocution of the year, he can't say for sure if it's his package in the pic (Maybe it's "Randy's"?), but he adamantly maintains he didn't deliver it.
Just a few months ago, this Ick-arus of Capitol Hill was the toast of the Beltway at the White House Correspondents Dinner in D.C. -- cracking off-color jokes about his name, making nasty cracks at his GOP congressional arch-nemesis Rep. Michele Bachmann and boasting (again) about his cable-TV combativeness. Echoing the many fan-girls he follows on Twitter, the media elite gushed that Weiner "killed it."
The party's over, but he's still yukking it up while his political credibility and public dignity are on the line. Washington Times editor Emily Miller reports that Weiner indulged in repeated, bizarre phallic jokes with Beltway reporters on Wednesday afternoon, joking that he was "a little bit stiff" and that the story was "the point of al-Qaida's sword."
He then turned on his heels, sat down for the cameras and played the role of chivalrous knight for his wife, extolling his own virility in doing all he can to "protect her." But his disrespect of women (the obsession with Bachmann is downright creepy) and his disastrously flippant response to the controversy are -- as with everything he's attempted this week -- doing far more harm than good.
Like the mythical jerk who ignored common sense and flew too close to the sun, Weiner keeps flapping his lips while the brouhaha's heat melts the wax off his sullied wings.
He's falling and he can't shut up.
Winning!
Jesse Jackson has an opinion on everything. Where has he been?
Great work!
Wow! Michelle is really on her game!
Glad to see your name here again. Hope all is well with you.
Intermittant snow & drips of rain here in N Nevada. Snow still falling at top of Donner Pass & at Lake Tahoe.
Weiner has “no idea” why he tweeted to the world that he was about to appear on Rachel maddow’s show, and that his exact segment would be aired at precisely 5:45 pm Seattle time.
Then a few hours later a self-photographed picture of a little weenie straining against grey ribbed boxer briefs above the skinniest thigh a man could have appeared on his Twitter feed, sent to a girl who happened to be in Seattle. Weiner doesn’t know how that happened, except that HE didn’t send it.
And this girl in question had a known crush on Weiner. Hmmmm.
that’s really well done doug...i forwarded that to all my kin around the south
and he doesn’t call for an law investigation
he did it...he’s an unhinged asshat who thinks America and traditional values a crime...a characteristic that gets someone elected to office in Manhattan
now it’s just a question as to whether he gets away with it
usually GOP goes down...Craig stays but was defeated later...Vitter’s accusations were more spurious and he survived them...those are the only 2 GOPs of note I can think of who did not resign or forced out
..Dems can survive this for obvious reasons...butthead survives this weekend with no more Shelias coming forth and he’ll make it...but could lose to a challenger next go around and his mayoral chances in Apple are much less now
but who knows...look at Giuliani’s affairs...another GOPer who survived forgot about him...and lovable Koch from my Manhattan days of residence..we all knew he was a homosexual but noboday cared because he was polite about it and his with and hubris was charming..”How am I doin?!!”
I can’t stand Weiner myself...a jerk...that news conference shows what he is made of...just snarky synapses wrapped around bones on a little girl’s body..why would any woman want sex with him beats me
‘Battle of the Bulge’ bump.....
He is a jerk. And the lib at politico wrote a pretty scathing essay on Weiner today, saying that any Congressman seining crotch shots to college kids has “issues.”. He writes that no one watching any of Weiner’s denials could think him innocent. I know other Dems live through sex scandals, but this one is so stupid, the pol is so arrogant, and his name is Weiner. It’s not going away.
BoR was joking about how Megyn Kelly is battling to get into the Fox News offices to take on “The Wiener.”
I’d pay to see that! They should make it a pay per view event.
Mark
As soon as a member of congress claimed that a computer account had been hacked, the FBI should have gotten involved. If Wiener continued to make the claim, rather than admitting he had done it, if he hadn't been "hacked" would be a felony, no "ifs, ands, or buts."
Plain and simple, if he has been hacked, the FBI needs to be involved. If he wasn't hacked and continues to claim that he was, then he needs to spend some time in jail.
Mark
Weiner also co sponsored a house cyber crimes bill that was a companion bill to a senate bill. But he doesn’t want the matter pursued. Cyber crimes are now pranks.
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